“We write to taste life twice,”
Anais Nin said.
I, not even once.
Drowned in unknowns,
expectations,
doubts,
hopes,
ills.
Black and white.
Self-pity left.
Grey appeared
amid a rainbow bouquet
donned in scents galore
in the arms of human laughter.
Joy overcame sorrow.
For now.
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Tagged as Anais Nin, beauty of life, National Poetry Writing Month, poem, Poetry, self-centeredness, sorrow of life
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